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RCSR is one of the major materials research and teaching centers in Georgia. The Republic Center for Structure Researches in the Georgian Technical University is serving several institutions in Georgia with the full range of methods for structural investigations of solid materials.

There are currently 22 permanent academic staff, among them: 4 professors, 6 Phd and 12 high-skilled research fellows. Individual members are regularly invited to present papers to major international conferences.

They are actively involved in the center’s research that is carried out by the following equipment available in RCSR:

• Transmission electron microscope with the microdiffraction analysis. (EM-10 C/CR, Carl Zeiss, Germany).
• Diffraction of fast electrons by reflection and transmission for determination of crystal surface perfection and phase composition. (Electronograph Eg-100M, USSR).
• Determination of the mean inner potential of crystal lattice. (RCSR original method patented in the USSR).
• Computer simulation of electron diffraction patterns and stereographic projections of single, twinned and two-phase crystals of any system. (RCSR original software package).
• Auger spectrometer. (LAS-2000, RIBER, France).
• Scanning electron microscope with X-ray microanalyser. (DSM-960, Carl Zeiss, Germany; Link, UK).
• Ordinary, high-temperature and quantitative optical metallographic microscopes. (MM-6; M-1750; TAS; Leitz, Germany).
• X-ray diffractometer. (DRON 3M, USSR; HZG-4A, USSR-Germany).
• Determination of the temperature dependence of internal friction and share modulus. (RCSR original device).
• Quick determination of the corrosion resistance of metals and alloys. (Spectropotentiostat. RCSR original device patented in the USA, Japan, Germany and UK).
• Cryogenic device for measurement of electric resistance, r(T, j, H) in the temperature range 10-300K. (Leibold-Heraeus, Germany).
• Emission Spectrometer. (Quantoport-F; ARL, USA).